Pierre Mulele

Pierre Mulele (11 August 1929-9 October 1968) was the Minister of Education of Congo-Leopoldville in 1960 under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and a leader of the Simba Rebellion.

Biography
Pierre Mulele was born on 11 August 1929 in Isulu-Matende, Belgian Congo, Belgium. Mulele served as Minister of Education of Congo-Leopoldville under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's communist government, but in January 1961 Lumumba was executed and his deputy Antoine Gizenga was imprisoned a year later, and Mulele was determined to continue the struggle of Lumumba. He went to Cairo, Egypt and then to China in 1963 and was trained in guerrilla warfare with some other Congolese youths, and Mulele, Gaston Soumialot, and Christophe Gbenye led Lumumbists in the Simba Rebellion in 1964. They captured Stanleyville and formed their own government there, and Mulele's rebels were eventually defeated by Belgium- and United States-backed Congolese forces. In 1968, President Joseph-Desire Mobutu invited him to return to the new country of Zaire, and Mulele thought that he would gain amnesty. However, he was tortured and executed, with his eyes being torn out of their sockets, his genitals ripped off, and all of his limbs amputated one-by-one until he died.